Louisville Students Working on Cool Projects

This last week I spoke at the KY .NET Developers Association in Louisville, KY.  They meet at the Duthie Center for Engineering on the University of Louisville campus.  Before my talk the Chair of the J.B. Speed School of Engineering, Dr. Adel Elmaghraby, and Professor Rammohan Ragade gave me a tour of their new facilities.  The building is very nice, with lots of places for students to congregate.  What I found most impressive about the tour were the research projects that the students and faculty were involved with.  Check out some of the research projects they are working on.

They have a few people in their Multimedia Research lab working on technology using ground penetrating radar to detect landmines.  This is actively being used in Afghanistan by our military.  Also in this lab they were working on image recognition

In one of the labs they had “video wall” made up twenty plus monitors driven by nine computers working together to produce an image equivalent of 70+ megapixels.  Sadly, it wasn’t on while I was there. :)  They have other projects like data forensics they are working on with the FBI, projects that research the origin of a file in a peer to peer network, and analysis of network security and reliability.  In their graphics lab they were working on 3d graphics and had a set of clustered playstations! Some really cool stuff.

While pizza was being served before the talk I had a few minutes to chat with a student who, as a class project, is working on a team to build a black jack game that is played on a Microsoft Surface platform.  The game will use mobile devices to let a user have their “private” card view while the Surface displays the “public” cards on the table.  That’s a pretty neat project.

So, now I’m highly jealous of the things students are doing at the University of Louisville.  They seem to have a great program there for computer science that covers a lot of the foundations of computer science with a lot of opportunities to work on some fun and interesting projects.

I have to thank Jeremy Sublett, Chad Campbell and Brian Carter (the leaders of the group) for having me down.